Well, Well, Well, my old buddy Novacain, who didn't like what I had to say to you several months ago, you who loved Roehl so much.
Now we see how it really is.
You probably won't look twice at what I say, but so what, here it is.
Try Falcon flatbedding, it's been good to me .
I am averaging 750 to 1100 per week and home every weekend.
At the end of your hours or week they route you home.
Usually the 750 weeks are 40 to 50 hours and the big weeks are 70 to 80 ,lol. ooppps did I say 80, no not me,lol.
I don't know why Jagerbomber is having so much trouble with them. Maybe it's the division or terminal manager or whatever, but I like Falcon.
I have had a few bad deals at some terminals but good at others.
Jersey tried to pull one on me by saying 2.500 per hundred then after 125 mi to get there said 2.25 and I told her I was hitting the road , deadhead all the way back to MI if I had to, but not taking one penny under what she told me.
I think they thought they could pull one on the newbie but I wasn't having anything to do with it.
I called my detroit manager and told him , he flipped, a few minutes later jersey called me back and the load was 2.75 .
Im not a spring chicken any more and am not going to do a damn thing I don't want to, and if they fire me Kay Sarah Sarah.
The first 5 weeks I was in several dif trailers but now have my own covered wagon.
GM was on shut down for 3 weeks and they sent me all over the place , which was ok because I made out ok.
Basically it's what you put in to it is what you get out of it.
As far as setting 3 days, no way that will happen at Falcon.
I get to choose some of my loads at times to.
I usually ask them if there is any thing I can do for them to call me.
Only 2 months and they started getting me on the dedicated route I want.
Only 2 months and I got holiday pay.
Already on Health ins.
Got life ins.
Dispatch messed up and I had to unload and reload but they paid me for it.
So far they have done what they said they would do.
I have done favors for them andd they have in return for me.
There is absolutly no problem with home time, flatbedding, don't know about vans.
I am sure some like Jagerbomber might not like Falcon, but you can't make every one happy.
Sorry to hear about Jagers trouble and dislike with them.
He should talk with Bill Hasely and see if things could be worked out.
Well good luck with what you try.
I am staying with Falcon for at least one years , even if it kills me,lol.
I hate job hopping and usually at many jobs you have to put more into it then you get out of it in the beggining.
I have had basically 3 jobs in 31 years until 2004 when I tried many dif things just for the fun of it. The last place I worked at for 20 years closed up with a one hour notice,lol.
Always wanted to drive truck since 1999 but still had kids at home and in school, I wouldn't have missed all those ball games and plays and every thing else , for the world. Those days you will never get back.
What a hole it left in my heart after the last two were out of school.
After spending all those years , helping, coaching, attending, cheering, taking hundreds of hours of videos, drive to a fro for mine and many others too,lol. It left a great big gap in my life, and I bounced around a lot working with many dif friends for the last year and a half just so I couls spend time with them,lol.
But alas , I knew I was going to drive truck and now, here I am.
I will fifnish my working days out in this career, and give my best effort into who ever I work for.
Right now I am happy to say it's FALCON, Call Bill Hasley and give them a try, 1-800-533-5505- ext. 200. he is the W Middlesesx terminal manager. Tell him I said HI. And good luck.

 

Ii have been with Falcon for the last year and can write you down a list of problems 10 miles long that would make you scratch you head and wonder what kind of company they really are. Flatbedders do have it a little better there, but they are overall a bottom feeder company. I dont complain just to complain because I am a very easy going guy that just wants to make a decent living. I have been there long enough to learn quite a few things and I dont want to learn any more.

 

nova y dont you just stick it out their for a while thn reapply to roehl as a van driver i switched from part time to full time and am still getting great weekly miles each and every week they have a consistent freight base with longer runs
you appearently hav the gift of gab and you like to chat mayb you schould consider a carreer in customer service. might i also suggest selling insurance,cars. might i dare say counseling. mayb explore education would you like to be a teacher. do you like to complain/gossip maybe you schould be a hairdresser. that is if this driving thing doesnt work out for you as always if your not happy where your at go else where
maybe keep switching carriers im sure youll find the right fit sooner or later. maybe you just having a bad decade or year hey cheer up get a sirius radio and litsen to howard stern bubba the luv spunge im sure everthing will fall into place for you sooner or later
good luck hthr novacane what ever your name might be.

THE TAPES HAVE ARRIVED!

 

Just so you know, this is Chris writing for Heather, I have been riding with her this last week and this week too, and have seen a lot of interesting things to say the least. We started off in our home town of Cookeville, headed for Chattanooga to a place called two guys and a truck, I'm serious, lol.

We get about halfway to Chattanooga and there are state troopers every where, literally. Joking around I asked if she had seen blue lights in the mirror yet since she started driving, and her answer was no. Well, I guessed that one question and answer jinxed us or something, because less than 5 minutes later, we pass yet another trooper going in the opposite direction and as soon as he passes us, he whips a u-turn and comes in behind her with his lights on.

Now it was no big deal, she wasn't speeding because there were a bunch of other drivers in front of us that were scared to even do the speed limit, so I know we weren't speeding, following too close or any of the other things that will get you pulled over. I honestly thought that he just turned on the lights to pass us or something, but sure enough, he pulled us over.

Now, because I came with her, she was already running late, I am not a early morning person and I was dragging the whole way to the truck, so she was about 15 minutes behind schedule already. And when the trooper came up on the passenger side, I rolled down the window and he said "just wanted to let you know that you weren't doing anything wrong, we are just doing random inspections today, and I am stopping every 7th truck, and you happen to be the 7th one today." He said, "don't worry, I will just have you here for about 30 minutes no more than an hour".

Heather was wigging out, so she decided to turn on the charm and was joking and cutting up with him asking if he would just let us go and decide to pull over every 8th truck, and told him that 7 was supposed to be a lucky number, and she didn't feel too lucky, but even though he was a super nice guy, he decided to go ahead and pull a level 2 inspection, which isn't anything major, but like I said she was late, and the qualcomm didn't have a signal, and neither of the cell phones had a signal either so she couldn't get in touch with dispatch to let them know she would be late to pick up the load.

Anyway he asked for all the paperwork and log books, typical stuff like that, and our inspection was underway. He checked the paper work, and found one problem, he said that she didn't have a single state registration for Tn, and that it was a big enough deal that he could shut her down, so now she was starting to sweat it a little, and he went back to his car with all her paperwork and license. She is sitting up front double and triple checking the logbook to make sure nothing was wrong, and waited for his return.

He comes back and says "well, I could shut you down, but I think that it is a mistake on the companies part, they have everything else and it all looks good, so I will just write you a warning, turn it into the company and have them sign and return it within 15 days and you will be ok" Then he started looking over the truck, checking numbers, mileage, tires, air
hoses and brakes to make sure everything was in order, then he checked the lights, and made sure the low air pressure alarm worked and he told us to hang on a minute, went back to his car, and after about 15 minutes came back and said everything was good, and that the missing paperwork was the only problem, and told us to have a good day. He was a really nice guy, and we chatted with him as he was doing everything, it was almost cool, but you know how that goes.


So we finished up with him, and head back out on the road again, waring passing drivers of the fate that may lie ahead, and watching many of them grab the shoulder to update their log books. We get to the shipper, and it is a small place, no docks or anything like that, looks to be
a mom and pop type place that runs straight trucks and nothing else, kind of a local moving company. She has to go down a dead end road and make a u-turn more or less in a airport, and come back up the street so she is pointed in the right direction. They load her by having a bunch of guys load a straight truck, and their dock, then back the straight truck up to her trailer and load her, 2 hours later they are finished loading, but they don't have any paperwork for the load, get this, the guy that handles the paper work for the specific consignee is out of the "office" getting his drivers license!

Well, I don't know about other states, but going to the dmv here in Tn is a long ordeal, and we knew we were in for a long wait. We sit about an hour, and they come up to the truck and we are thinking cool, finally we can go and get this whopping 200 mile load to Atlanta done and over with so we can get a better load. But nope, it's just an employee asking her to park on the other side of the street, the side that has no parking any time signs every 50 feet or so, and when she tells him that, he says aww, ignore that, we park there all the
time. Wanting to cover her butt, she calls dispatch and they say go ahead and do it, so she parked and we were sitting waiting again.

We sit there about an hour and a trash truck comes through, and decides to park next to us to chat a little while, really nice guy, that used to be a driver and was thinking of starting driving again, and was wondering what the money was like now that he had been away for about 10 years, and was surprised to learn that the pay was more or less the same, he said he expected the pay to average 50cpm by now, but was shocked that most company drivers don't even come close. We chatted with him for a while and finally a car came up wanting to get by and our socializing for the day was over with.She decides just to get in the back and take a nap since there didn't seem to any hope of the guy showing up anytime soon. Get in the back and lay down, 15 minutes later, a knock at
the door, yeah! paperwork, look at the papers and they are incorrect, says they loaded 44 pieces, but there were nowhere near that many. Then they say that is the only paperwork they have for the consignee, so we are still stuck, the guy still isn't back and dispatch
can't help any, no choice have to wait.

The guy finally shows up almost an hour later, and has the papers in a minute, and we can finally pull out headed for Atlanta. We were supposed to be there at 9 am, and got there at 10:30, and were ready to pull out at almost 5pm due to the consignee by 9pm, you do the math. Get to the consignee thanks to my wonderfully planned directions, lol, just in the nick of time and the clock turns 9 just as she is pulling away from the dropped trailer.

This place had everything in order, and were really quick to get her in to drop the trailer, and bobtail out of there, it was the jc penney place. Get in, get out in less than 10 minutes. Go to a truckstop down the road, and shut down. Get a preplan for the next day, pick up at the same jc penney, and take it right back to the 2 guys with a truck place, great, low
mileage, bad place to deal with. Get up the next morning, and go back, pick up the trailer she dropped the day before, preloaded with a whopping 3k pounds, lol. Take the trip back up to Tn and this time they unloaded her pretty fast, with the same method, but still had to sit 2 more hours for paperwork, still, that's better than before


Now this place was a mad house, yard jockeys everywhere, daycabs being used to help the jockeys, pretty small place for the volume of trucks, dedicated trucks that can just drive right by you because they have a pre planned door, just busy, busy, busy. Still not that big of a deal, it was a DHL place, I am sure some of you have been there. Well, they get her trailer unloaded in just a minute and tells her to grab it back and take it as the empty, so she hooked back up to it, and less than 15 minutes after we pull through the gates, we are gone, heading for a truckstop, which was only an exit up 285, not the best of places to spend the night, but we have seen worse. Wake up to a pre plan, head to Shelbyville Tn, another whopper, 420 paid miles, and so we head back out on the road, headed for a plastic plant to pick up another heavy load, almost 1500 pounds, lol. Now, the miles haven't been good this week so far, so she has been talking with dispatch about getting a run up north to one of the terminals so she can pick up the paperwork she needed after the dot inspection, a kill two birds with one stone type situation, but it isn't working, we are stuck running from tn to ga, and even though the potential for miles is there, by doubling up the loads, or whatever, because of the pick up and delivery times, she is stuck only getting a couple hundred miles a day, the 420 mile run was the big one for this week, and besides they did send a message over the qualcomm that said freight was slow right now, so at least she is getting something.

So, we head back to Tn early the next morning to pick up a load of plastic that is coming right back to Atlanta! We get there way early, hoping to pick up early, but even though the trailer was sitting there, preloaded and ready to go, we couldn't grab it and take off, because they don't ship until 5pm, they only receive, so the early start was ruined and we had to wait, through a severe thunderstorm no doubt, with the only entertainment being watching a yard jockey trying to get a driver out of a mud hole he dug spinning backing into a trailer.

The yard dog would sit and spin, so I got out and told them it wasn't going to pull the truck and trailer back, just unhook, and pull the truck out, grab the trailer with the yard dog and since it was a single axle, it would pull it right out, you see the problem was that as the rear wheels of the semi started to climb out of the hole, the rears would come off the ground and start to spin, I know most of you have been in that situation. Anyway, I told them what they had to do to get it out, but nobody wanted to listen to me, so I sat and watched the professionals try to get it unstuck, and finally an hour later, they used my idea, and what do you know, worked like a charm, I just don't get it, they could have been long gone if someone would have taken my advice.

So we sit till 5, and finally grab the trailer, and start for Atlanta, have to be there by 11pm, which leaves just enough time. She gets there about 10:30 and there is a line of trucks out the entrance, all the way to the road, and I was the 7th truck in line, having no choice but to park in the middle of a busy little road, that was thankfully 5 lanes wide(2 driving lanes each way and a turning lane). Sit and sit and she is getting anxious, even though she is there, because she is so far back in line that it will appear that she was late, so she called dispatch and let them know what the deal was, she was there but couldn't get in.

After waiting, and talking with all the other drivers that are regulars there, they say every night at around midnight it was like this, and that it was going to be really bad considering it's only 11, and how true his words were, that place was crazy. Yard jockeys carrying empties out in the road, letting a driver swap trailers and the jockey taking the trailer in before you are accepted,even though you have been there waiting for over an hour.

Turns out that the dock doors are full, half the people didn't show up for work and they were short so everything was creeping, even the security guard that is supposed to check the trucks in was gone, and drivers where making themselves at home. So they overloaded it, and that is what the hold up was, just not enough doors and people to handle the amount being received. After waiting in line 2 hours, they waive her through, takes 15 minutes to hit the dock door due to traffic, and the busy lot. They take a forklift, grab two pallets, and the rest is boxes that have to be unloaded by hand.

Well, that dock door doesn't do hand unloading, only doors one through 5, so she has to wait for another door to open. 2 more hours and at the beginning of a decent nap, there is a knock at the door, they just got a empty Barr nunn trailer, and what do you know, its the one she dropped last night, lol. So knowing she was tired and had been there so long, they let her grab a empty and take care of the trailer waiting to be unloaded, over 4 hours after arrival, we are free headed for a truck stop, the same place we spent the night in last night, 5 minutes away, and there were 2 spots left, we picked the best and went to sleep.

Finally, get up the next morning to a preplan, no miles again, pick up in tn, deliver to tn, then a second drop in Atlanta again, whew, AND instead of working and driving this weekend, we got sent home, and have to leave out here in a few to make the pick up and next 2 drops, hopefully get another load, and have to be back here by the 3rd because she has to be in court, and that was the reason she wanted to stay out over the weekend.

Will the miles pick up, and will she get the paperwork turned in on time? Will they have a the proper paperwork for her books and the next dot inspection? Only time will tell, stay tuned.

 

Seems to be a few chapters missing in this saga!! :wink:
Could you fill us in on what has transpired since the last post?? :?

 

I don't know what's real and what Isn't with this.

 

...how about surreal....like a dream...in this guy's mind.....you are getting sleepy, sleepy.......

 

we didnt read it write could you tell us again.

 

what the fuck was that other thread about im so confused, you should come back to roehl bar none sounds like shit.

 

I work for Barr-Nunn....its just about the most low pressure easy to work for company I could imagine. It has its flaws just like every other company but definitely not crappy like you say.